LILO
Uses BIOS to access disks (not some other driver)
As LILO
boots it displays:
L
, first stage boot loader has been loaded and started
LI
, second stage boot loader has been loaded
LIL
, Second stage started ( if LILO
stops here, it can't load the descriptor table from the map file. a media failure or by bad disk parameters in the BIOS.LIL?
second stage has been loaded at an incorrect address, bad disk parameters in the BIOS.LIL-
descriptor table is corrupt, bad disk parameters in the BIOS
LILO
All is loaded
/etc/lilo.conf
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/boot/boot.MMmm | backup of original boot sectors (MM =major,mm =minor Device Numbers) needed to un-install and restore to previous bootstrap program.NOTICE: running multiple times will NOT clobber the original bootstap!
To restore previous bootstrap: |
-M |
large-memory lba32 boot=/dev/hda install=menu map=/boot/map prompt default=Linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26 label="Linux" root=/dev/hda2 label = windoz table = /dev/hda1 append="" read-only optionalsee Wikipedia
GRUB is successor.